Learn about the characters of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting with a character biopoem. Readers fill in a poem format to detail the character traits of Winnie, Jesse, Miles, and Mae, and share their finished poems with their peers.

Concepts

tuck everlasting, biopoems, reading comprehension, character traits

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use before or after your novel unit
• Have readers fill out multiple biopoems for different characters, not including names or titles, and encourage their peers to guess the characters based on the listed traits
• Use the biopoem during a Back to School unit to help class members introduce themselves and get to know each other

Classroom Considerations

• Consider augmenting your assessment and rubric process beyond what is listed in the resource

Pros

• Comes with a formatted worksheet 
• Versatile assignment would work for any novel unit, character study, lesson about a historical figure, or even a math or science concept

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.3 RL.5.3 RL.6.3 RL.7.3